This thread is for the more intelligent, any intelligent thoughts can be posted here by the more intelligent amongst us.
The thread is dedicated to bosley (bos) who only wants the more intelligent thoughts posted here.

Imagination is more important than knowledge; Einstein

A bit of non intelligents or from the unintelligent

insiderinside - 11 Aug 2005 07:11 - 8299 of 8305
Lets take 4 words
Due
Responsibility
Diligence
Accountability.
All just simple guesses and IMO and must not be misunderstood of course in the event you could misunderstand any meaning you should ignore this post.

I would very happily ignore all ii's posts were it not for the inherant comedy value.

There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 4

On the other hand, there are some common behaviors among animals that seem to favor intelligence. Social interaction, for example. If youre a critter that hangs out with others, then theres clearly an advantage in being smart enough to gauge the intentions of the guy sitting next to you (before he nabs your mate or your meal). And if youre clever enough to outwit the other members of your social circle, youll probably have enhanced opportunity to breed (to put it graciously), thus passing on your superior smarts.

Predator-prey relations are another type of interaction that can ratchet up intelligence. When a lioness catches a wildebeest, shes more likely to snag the dumb one that wasnt paying attention. Result? The lioness has a meal, but the average IQ of the wildebeests has been raised. This puts the lions under increased pressure in running down their next meal, and the dumber cats will preferentially drop out of the gene pool. Both predator and prey will be under selective pressure for intelligence.

All of this sounds as if Nature whether on our planet or some alien world will stumble into increased IQ sooner or later. But keep in mind that many of the dinosaurs were in predator-prey relations (and may have been somewhat social, too). Why didnt they get smart? After all, they had 140 million years to do so.

When it comes to the evolution of intelligence, the bottom line is that we dont know the bottom line. And indeed, we may never know how likely it is that intelligence will appear unless and until we find it elsewhere. So well keep deploying those SETI telescopes.

Cosmic !!

i just love photos like that. WHY is it that my wife will see something like that and just shrug her shoulders? i have found that women in general ( no offence to the MORE INTELLIGENT ), think the sky just consists of the sun, moon and the few stars they can see through the light pollution. the missus cant even see that the stars she CAN see are different colours ( and yes i appreciate that most of the spectacular photos from deep space are colour enhanced ).

They prefer to read them than look at them!! Why?. Another one of lifes mysteries! That picture is amazing.

superrod
May be if this was real she would understand.

This is a good one.

saw a guy on holiday painting pictures like that with spray paint. superb!!

and me in Canada (Vancouver Island)!

Anyone like the fantasy art of Boris Vallejo?

NO was my answer ( til i saw the second one LOL ).

What a genius , got any more Doc !

Nuclear fission is the splitting of an atom into several smaller fragments. This is induced by bombarding an atom of fuel (usually uranium-235 but could also be plutonium-239, uranium-233, and possibly thorium-232) with neutrons. The fissionable atom then captures the neutron and splits (decays) into two smaller atoms (isotopes such as iodine-131, caesium-137 and strontium 90) and two or three neutrons, which go on to split other fissionable nuclei resulting in a chain reaction.
The combined weight of the fission products is less than the weight of the original nucleus and following Einstein's E=mc2 this loss of mass (about 0.1% of the original mass) is converted into the massive energy output of the reaction.

There are many problems with this technique, the most famous and most crucial is the safety aspect. The products of the fission are all highly radioactive and the process itself results in a substantial amount of both beta and gamma radiation. There is no safe, permanent way to dispose of the radioactive products and further safety issues arise in the mining, refining and transportation of the fissionable material. Also the consequences of incompetently operated reactors was made tragically clear with the Chernobyl disaster.

And add to that scenario, some religious fanatical hatred or even a very slight potential risk towards such, and we can begin to see why, if Iran don't reduce a nuclear risk to external countries and communities, then someone lke the USA or Israel, will reduce it for them.

PS. Look at the following for Boris Vallejo art on the Internet:-

Boris Vallejo

well after enjoying all the intelligent conversation I thought I should contribute to the debate on gender issues and perhaps why boris and the stars don't quite work on the female of the species....now I think I learnt how to operate the top of the machine when I was about 12..now i'm 37 and as for the lower part i'm still trying to find the missing pages of the manual, you know the ones, the bits that the suppliers think are too obvious to bother writing down but everyone gets stuck on....to press the green one before the red one, or vice versa? or is that only in the morning?

which is the button that activates the woman ultimate get out clause whenever she is losing an arguement, the one that activates the line, " yes i know that's what i said , but that's not what i meant!!!"

nice tits on the pics , btw.

Hmm...that's a superlarge pink LED for the blokes.